2024-01-03 05:00:34
Sporting is already heading towards other options to sign a “9” this January, after definitively falling for Asier Villalibre, its plan A for the winter market, advanced exclusively by LA NUEVA ESPAÑA. Villalibre remains at Athletic 100%. At least until June. Then the player plans to reanalyze his future. The Gernika striker’s entourage has already confirmed to the rojiblanco club executives the decision of “El Búfalo” to continue in Bilbao.
Asier Villalibre, a forward who is highly regarded in the category after his successful loan at Alavés last season, has had loan proposals from half the Second Division in recent weeks: Zaragoza, Éibar, Tenerife… But the only one that made him doubt The truth was that of Sporting, although in the end his desire to finish this campaign with Athletic Bilbao and contribute his grain of sand to help Valverde’s men get into Europe has become more important. The leaders of the sports area of the red-and-white club held several conversations directly with the 26-year-old forward, as this newspaper learned. But there was no progress due to the striker’s strong desire to continue in Lezama.
With the option of signing Villalibre now definitively ruled out, the sports area is handling a select group of names to approach the signing of a forward. The profile sought is an area attacker, with a different profile than Otero, Campuzano and Djuka. One of the names on the table is Jon Karrikaburu, as this newspaper also reported. “Karrika” has proposals from several Second Division clubs: Elche, Leganés… In principle it is a complicated option for Sporting, which has a lot of competition. What seems evident is that the player will leave Alavés this January, where he is not getting minutes. At Real there is great anger with the management of the 21-year-old attacker’s career. “Karrikaburu, having Kike and Samu, is going to have a difficult time. It makes me very sad, I told you. These boys need to play. I already told you that I had to decide very well where to go and I don’t know if he, his environment or his representative decided to go to a First team,” declared Imanol Alguacil, coach of Real Sociedad, the club that owns the forward’s rights. In Mareo they keep other names on the radar and have just over 400,000 euros to move. The club remains attentive to other avenues and has been collecting offers from agents and sports management. The priority is to hire a forward who can add immediately, therefore the aim is to hire a player who knows the category and Spanish football.
Media Segunda looks for a “9”
The bulk of Second Division sports departments are fighting in this January window for the same objective: scoring a goal, something that is not abundant and is even more difficult to find in winter. Most of the leading clubs in the category strive for the same objectives, which makes it very difficult to hire a striker and sometimes forces them to hold out until the market closes. Weissman, for example, manages the interests of many clubs in the category. Karrikaburu, wanted by Sporting, is another example of a player with a lot of posterity.
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